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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/history/events/professor-robert-macdougall-peoples-telephone">The People's Network: The Telephone and the Fight for "Net Neutrality" 100 Years Ago</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As part of the 2013-2014 History Speaker Series, Professor Robert MacDougall of Western University will discuss his book new book on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 from 1:30-2:30pm in HH 117. Free lunch will be served.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was never inevitable. In the decades around 1900, an extraordinary movement of ordinary people built their
own telephone systems. Farmers, doctors, and small-town entrepreneurs created tens of thousands of these independent telephone companies, turning the telephone into a truly popular medium. When the Bell companies fought back, a fierce battle for control of
the technology was joined.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But the battles over telephony a century ago were not only commercial contests. They involved crucial questions about how the emerging corporate order would be structured, and where commerce and information should flow. Great and abstract
struggles—national markets versus local economies, big business versus small, and even existential questions about social and political identity—were fought by proxy over the telephone and its wires.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We hope you will join us for this talk!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Erin Campbell</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Administrative Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">History Department, University of Waterloo</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Office: HH115 | Phone: 519-888-4567 x35828<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:erin.campbell@uwaterloo.ca">erin.campbell@uwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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